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Packers’ College Alumni Triplets

I was thinking more about Packer Triplets – star quarterback/receiver/running back combinations – but not for Green Bay. Rather, I thought about the colleges for whom these Packers played. Below is a table of the 24 that meet the slight criteria of a quarterback, a runner with at least one rush as a Packer and a receiver with at least one pass caught. Southern Mississippi falls short…Brett Favre has Terry Wells to hand off to, but no one to throw to; conversely, California’s Aaron Rodgers can throw to Richard Rodgers, but has no runner to give the ball to (1929 blocking back Jack Evans has no recorded rushes in his 2 games in Green Bay).

College

QB

RB

E

Alabama

Bart Starr

Eddie Lacy

Don Hutson

Alabama JV

Scott Hunter

Paul Ott Carruth

Ted Cook

Arizona State

Dennis Sproul

Travis Williams

John Jefferson

Arkansas

Lamar McHan

Lew Carpenter

Al Baldwin

Boston College

Matt Hasselbeck (Jack Concannon)

Joe Johnson

Mark Chmura

Georgia

Zeke Bratkowski

Breezy Reid

Tom Nash

Kansas State

Lynn Dickey

Veryl Switzer

Jordy Nelson (Paul Coffman)

LSU

Matt Flynn (Alan Risher)

Jim Taylor

Ab Wimberly

Missouri

Paul Christman

Gerry Ellis

Jon Staggers

Nebraska

Jerry Tagge (Ferragamo/Claridge/Patrick)

Ahman Green (Verne Lewellen)

Bernie Scherer

Notre Dame

Blair Kiel

Paul Hornung

Derrick Mayes

Ohio State

Mike Tomczak

John Brockington

Terry Glenn

Oklahoma

Jack Jacobs

Vernand Morency

Keith Jackson

Pacific

Carlos Brown

Willard Harrell

A.D. Williams

Penn State

Chuck Fusina

Mike Meade

Andrew Quarles

SMU

John Roach

Don McIlhenny

Gene Wilson

South Carolina

Bill Troup

Larry Craig (Ken Roskie)

Sterling Sharpe (Robert Brooks)

Texas Tech

Graham Harrell

Donny Anderson

Bill Kelley

Tulsa

TJ Rubley

JR Boone

Nolan Luhn (Clyde Goodnight)

UCLA

Steve Bono

Johnathan Franklin

Spencer Havner

Virginia

Don Majkowski

Johnny Papit

Carlton Elliott (Tyrone Davis)

Washington

Mark Brunell

Junior Coffey

Kitrick Taylor

Wisconsin

Randy Wright

Ed Jankowski

Milt Gantenbein

Wisconsin JV

Scott Tolzein (Jug Girard)

Gary Ellerson

Jared Abbrederis

Yale

Brian Dowling

Chuck Mercein

John Spagnola

Clearly, the top group here is Alabama with Hall of Famers Starr and Hutson as well as Eddie Lacy, who has had two excellent seasons in Green Bay. Other top groups include Kansas State, which is just solid across the board, Nebraska and Georgia. Notre Dame and LSU also feature one Hall of Famer a piece.

At the bottom, College of the Pacific, UCLA, Tulsa, Yale and the two “JV” teams have the least impressive collections of talent.